Hell is empty and all the devils are here
A famous quote in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and a colloquialism to describe today’s fiscal policy impasse. And while pollsters take polls to find out who the uninformed ill-informed and often misinformed public blames for the government shutdown and the media rushes to share these shiny new data sets with the very same public, we are stuck in neutral with a sputtering engine. I refuse to believe that our sclerotic government is at its worst right now, not when you look at the first hundred years of our nation’s history, and anyone who compares today’s situation to the Civil War has stretched credibility. No today is bad, but not as bad as the ratings searching media and talking heads would like you to believe. No, we just need to deal with these devils. These usual suspects: For starters, the mainstream media, especially the beltway brand that is more interested in playing the blame game and deciding which party or politician is winning or losing. ...